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As regards producers of sales packaging, the producer is the economic operator who fills the packaging and makes it available for the first time on the territory of the Member State. To exemplify, Company D fills fruit in a container and sells the packaged fruits to a supermarket in the same Member State. In this case Company D will be considered the producer in that Member State since it makes the packaging available for the first time and the packaging is expected to become waste there. However, if Company D sells the packaged fruits to a supermarket in another Member State, the supermarket in that Member State will be the producer, since it will make the packaged fruits available on the market for the first time in that Member State, where it will become waste.

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Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-09-07 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.